Snow Day!

It's been a pretty mild winter here so far in D.C. , so imagine our excitement today when we woke up to snow! As soon as Lilah got up and looked at the window she wanted to check it out - who can resist her "peese Momma" even in PJs.

After a few hours with the snow getting a bit higher, Lilah got to try out another one of the joys of winter snow - snowballs! We are going to head outside for some snow angel making after he nap but for now we are trying to make sure she knows to not eat the yellow snow.

For another first today Lilah got to try out her first box of crayons! It took her a bit of time to realizing they were for drawing and not eating, but once she did fun ensued.

And an update from the last post...on Friday Lilah had her 15 month Dr's appointment where we learned she is doing wonderfully. She is 22lbs (35th percentile), 31.5" (75th percentile - she is tall!), and 49cm head (97th percentile of course). She is speaking more words than even I realized and she did fantastic with all of her shots. Go Lilah!

As for the chickenpox - Lilah was exposed during her nanny share as the child she is with came down with them on Wed. We have learned so much since then but the basics are: we will know within 10-25 days if she was infected, if so no biggie we just have to keep her isolated from younger children until all her pox have gone away and keep her from itching herself all over. So keep your fingers crossed an find humor in the irony that she was suppose to get her chicken pox vaccine on Friday and she was exposed on Monday (she did actually get the vaccine on Wed - but it is only 70% effective anyway so who knows if it would have made a difference).


And for even some end of the blog fun, some lunch time eating.

Here Kitty Kitty Kitty

For Lilah's first birthday she got a lot of wonderful presents and at different times she claims different ones as her "favorite" of the moment.

Currently the one she spends the most time with (and by "time" I mean EVERY night) is a pull around kitty named KoKo (named for Erika and David's cat since they are the ones who got the kitty for Lilah).

Now this would be a very cute story of Lilah and her cute kitty (and video below), and you would think that a toy that makes no sound wouldn't give us much trouble...however...Lilah especially loves when mommy walks the kitty around the house singing "We're walking the Kitty, we're walking the kitty, here we go, we're walking the kitty." - you'll have to make up your own tune. So you can imagine our nights the last few weeks :) that I hope gives you a smile today!

And no blog post would be complete without some shots of the "Best of Lilah" photos from this week.

Tonight (yes two in one day!) her 15th month appointment...and "chicken pox - yea or nea?", so tune in again soon.

Lastly - a BIG shout out to Anne who is leaving on a jet plane for her first half Marathon - go Anne we are cheering for ya!

Happy New Year!

A very happy new year to all readers!

And a few photos from last night shindig.

And one from this morning! Hunter recovering from a hard night out on the town.

It's all about the Lilah (and she has realized that!)

So we all know that the camera loves Lilah, but now Lilah loves the camera. On Christmas Eve, Lilah learned how to take self portraits of herself with our camera - even smiling right after she presses the button and before the flash goes off. So for your viewing pleasure...Lilah taking photos of Lilah....

Lilah has also learned how to play tug of war with Hunter (or as she called him "Unter") and he has learned how to play back!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to all! We in the Boig household have been traveling, holiday fools with the pictures to show for it. I'll let the pictures do the talking on this blog entry, but two quick notes ... that since the last time I wrote Lilah came down with and thankfully got over her first stomach virus (after eating pea soup no less!) and the wrapped with care present to the left was Lilah's first X-mas gift from Alexander - a life size Gund duck that she loves!
We started off our holiday season a little over a week ago (a week and a day ago to be exact) when we dragged Lilah and Hunter out of bed to head to my mom's house in NJ. You can see how well the two of them have taken to sharing the back of the car together.




After good food and good presents, Lilah decided to rearrange her Grandmother's spice cabinet over and over and well over again.






We had a very nice and relaxing two days, and a great dinner with my Aunt Karen and Uncle Fred, who got to see Lilah running all around.





While Hunter did his own form of relaxing on her couch.







Lilah also enjoyed playing with my mom's singing frog.







A few days later we said goodbye to one part of Jersey and hello to another as we all headed off to Lilah's Bubbe's house, where Lilah LOVED to play with her Hanukkah tree and point out all the "balls" (ornaments). She now has four words in her repertoire - ball, baby, Hunter and of course Daddy.









We all enjoyed a good game of "Lilah in the Basket".




Lilah very much enjoyed her first Latke and after a week of her barely eating due to the virus it was a good meal to have.






She also amazed us all with her "peekaboo" napkin game.







As well as her "Let me sleep in Hunter's new bed" game.







Sunday night we made our way back to MD to check out our NEW patio! Garden planting has already started and spring fever is coming soon.





We got back just in time for the first night of Hanukkah at home and the second night at Beth and Darryl's where Lilah received her first CD of Rocknoceros, a local kids band with some great music. I think Lilah enjoyed Darryl dancing more than the CD.




The third night also spent quietly at home, before the 4th night where breaking with the tradition of Christmas Eve Chinese dinner Lilah was a fantastic dinner guest at Growlers, a local area brew pub.




And then Christmas itself (wow was that only yesterday!). As with traditions past we attending the annual Christmas Enchilada celebration at the Reich's, where Lilah and Alexander exchanged lovely gifts and the rest of us brought totally inappropriate White Elephant gifts to exchange with each other.



After a full meal and tons of yummy desserts we got to unwrap one last gift of "Lilah in a sac".






We also pondered "Could Alexander really be Santa Clause?".







And just because it's cute, a picture of all the girls at the party (not even taken this way on purpose!).






So with some partying behind us and some still ahead (more night of Hanukkah and New Years still to come. Lilah kicked back with a book.





And well Hunter ... you can interpret that your own way.

Blog post created FOR Lilah with love

Heading out to NJ tomorrow for some holiday family time!

Lots of photos, videos and fun updates when we return.

So in case you are wondering who will miss Lilah the most while we are gone, I leave you with this photo.....

Blog post created by Lilah with love

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